Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. POJOAQUE PUEBLO — In a demonstration of healing, Josiah Enriquez’s moccasins etched rapid, intricate patterns in the sand as he ...

A circle, or hoop, has infinite sides and infinite angles. “Google it,” Lumhe Sampson encouraged the crowd at a music festival in St. Paul’s Mears Park. From the stage, Sampson held up a white plastic ...

The World Championship Hoop Dance Contest is held every February in Phoenix. Arizona (Credit: Karen Gardiner) There's no better place to see hoop dancers at the top of their game than at the World ...

In a pastoral campground south of Lansing, many attendees at the Michigan Hoop Dance Retreat were hooping as if their hair was on fire. Then, Missy Cooke’s hair caught fire. Dancing with a torch in ...

WILMINGTON | “There are many shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them.” That’s a very fitting quote for Suzi McLean, who discovered the joy of hula hoop dance in 2012 and has never looked ...

The National Football League isn’t alone in crowning a world champion in Phoenix this month. The 33 rd annual World Championship Hoop Dance Contest takes place at the Heard Museum downtown Saturday ...

In 1991, my father and I decided to host a unique event to preserve a Native artform that began in the Southwest and transform it into a World Championship Contest. Little did we know our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dallas Arcand, an Indigenous entertainer from Edmonton, claimed the title of the 2025 World Championship Hoop Dance Contest in ...

Seven-time champion hoop dancer Lisa Odjig says she remembers the moment she realized she wanted to be a performer: “Back in Wiikwemkoong, Manitoulin Island, we had our community gathering … I was ...

As a child, ShanDien Sonwai LaRance never thought her love for hoop dancing would take her around the world. But her dad knew. "Keep hoop dancing," her dad often said. "It's going to open doors for ...